Today the Safer Internet Day 2013 is taking place. It is the tenth edition of the event that pays attention to threats on the Internet. The aim of the EU-launched day is to make the Internet a safer place especially for children and teenagers.
This year the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media, BITKOM, has listed ten of the most serious Internet threats:
- Drive-by-Downloads of malware
- Trojans / Worms
- Attacks on databases and websites
- Virus kits
- Botnets
- Denial-of-Service-attacks
- Phishing
- Data loss
- Rogueware/ Scareware
- Spam